At last Friday's installment of the Experimental College-sponsored "A Taste of Tufts: A Sampling of Faculty Research" lecture series, Edith Balbach, senior lecturer and director of the community health program, spoke about her research on the marketing and political behaviors of the tobacco industry.
Speakers discussed the impact of environmental challenges on global conflict at Saturday's 2 p.m. panel, titled "Resource Wars and the Changing Climate of Conflict."
Saturday night's panel "The Media and Warfare," as well as the entire EPIIC International Symposium this year, was dedicated to photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, who was killed on Apr. 20, 2011 while reporting on the Libyan civil war.
An expert-led panel discussion exploring power transitions in the 21st century last night kicked off the 27th Annual Norris and MargeryBendetson Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) International Symposium. The program is sponsored by the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) and this year is focusing on the theme of "Conflict in the 21stCentury."
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) announced earlier this month that it is now offering open housing, more commonly known as gender- neutral housing, in some roomes in Bush Hall and Latin Way. This program is an option for students who feel more comfortable living with someone of another gender.
Hollywood veterans and Tufts alumni Prudence Fraser Sternin (J '77) and Robert Sternin (A '77) gave a talk yesterday afternoon about their careers in the television industry, which have included developing or producing close to a dozen series, including "Three's Company" (1977-1984), ...
Well-known scholar, activist and advocate for global and domestic civil rights Cornel West, who is a professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, addressed a packed Cohen Auditorium in a lecture last night with a message calling for critical personal and social analysis, emphasizing the significance of the plight of working class individuals in advocating for democratic and social reform.
Dear Jack and Hannah, I arrived in college expecting a significant change in my love life — that is, to start having any semblance of one at all. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the case, and I remain regrettably single and even more regrettably celibate. My question, therefore, commences thusly: How do I make every Tufts girl lust after me? Thanks for your help, Lonely in Lewis
Tufts' campus in downtown Boston will on April 16 begin implementing its new initiative to become tobacco-free by prohibiting smoking in the vicinity of the building.
The Feinstein International Center (FIC) at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy received its largest funding award yet in the form of a $7.3 million research grant aimed at fighting child malnutrition in Ethiopia, according to a Feb. 9 press release.
Tufts University Information Technology (UIT) expanded its virtual private network (VPN) on Jan. 8 in response to a Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate resolution from earlier this academic year.
Not every Tufts professor remembers a time when Jackson College was listed on female students' diplomas or when the Hill lacked Tufts Dance Collective performances. Associate Professor and Director of Dance Alice Trexler has seen it all. After 34 years at Tufts, she plans to retire in May.
We all want to be one in a million. How about one in a billion? You could be a forensic ornithologist! What? Well, in this age of CSI, anything with "forensic" in the title is irresistibly sexy.
Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University Steven Pinker on Friday will deliver this year's Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award keynote address at the 26th annual Norris and Margery Bendetson Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) symposium.
A new university-wide Sexual Violence Working Group, spearheaded by the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO), will meet throughout the semester to address sexual assault prevention and awareness among students and to make current university policies regarding sexual assault readily available and visible.
